When President Donald Trump took office in January, one of his first executive orders declared that trans people in federal prisons would be moved back to facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth. These events were unsurprising to many incarcerated trans people, particularly in states like Florida, where trans people have already been coping with a binary-gender regime enforced by despotic leaders like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Rayne Vylette is an activist and writer currently living behind bars in Florida and organizing with the Alyssa Rodriguez Center for Gender Justice (ARC). In 2023, Vylette joined Interrupting Criminalization’s cohort of abolitionist journalists inside and outside of prison; during the period of the cohort, she was re-arres

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